generate-release-notes

A project guide for writing release notes from merged commits and pull requests. Release notes are a plain-language summary of what changed in a software version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating changelog entries that group features, bug fixes, improvements, maintenance work, and breaking changes.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually sort commits, rewrite technical messages, and keep each release in the same format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kws-projects/react-boilerplate/generate-release-notes
Any agent
npx skills add kws-projects/react-boilerplate --skill generate-release-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kws-projects/react-boilerplate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 618 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00044 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00062

Measured 2d ago against content hash c7ea0a8c988a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-release-notes scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/skills/generate-release-notes/SKILL.md · 94 lines

What it actually says

Generate Release Notes

Produce release notes from the commits/PRs merged since the last release. Group by change type, keep entries user-facing, and follow the exact template below so every release reads the same way.

Steps

  1. Find the range since the last release tag/version:
git fetch --tags
git log "$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)"..HEAD --pretty=format:'%s (%h)'
  1. Read the version from package.json and today's date.
  2. Map Conventional Commit types to sections (omit empty sections):
    • feat -> Features
    • fix -> Bug Fixes
    • perf/refactor -> Improvements
    • docs/chore/build/ci/test -> Maintenance
    • any !/BREAKING CHANGE -> Breaking Changes (list first)
  3. Rewrite each line as a concise, user-facing sentence (not the raw commit). Keep the short hash in parentheses. Drop noise (merge commits, release bumps).

Template

## vX.Y.Z - YYYY-MM-DD

### Breaking Changes

- <only if any>

### Features

- <user-facing description> (<hash>)

### Bug Fixes

- <user-facing description> (<hash>)

### Improvements

- <user-facing description> (<hash>)

### Maintenance

- <user-facing description> (<hash>)

Example

Input commits:

feat(auth): add login with email and password (a1b2c3d)
feat(i18n): add Arabic translations (e4f5g6h)
fix(theme): persist dark mode across reloads (i7j8k9l)
refactor(api): simplify query client setup (m0n1o2p)
chore(deps): bump vite to 7 (q3r4s5t)
chore(release): v1.2.0 [skip ci] (u6v7w8x)

Output:

## v1.2.0 - 2026-06-01

### Features

- Log in with email and password (a1b2c3d)
- Arabic language support (e4f5g6h)

### Bug Fixes

- Dark mode now persists across page reloads (i7j8k9l)

### Improvements

- Simplified React Query client setup (m0n1o2p)

### Maintenance

- Upgraded Vite to v7 (q3r4s5t)

Note: the chore(release) bump commit is intentionally excluded.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 94 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A c7ea0a8c988a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generate-release-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository kws-projects/react-boilerplate (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 618 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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